If there is one thing we’ve learned from 2016, it’s that change is the only constant. Join our Conference Chairman as he shares key ways to stay abreast of the biggest changes impacting and transforming our industry, including:

How to be proactive with tech today to gain increased advantages for the future

The importance of maintaining a securely protected Logistics IT network

The danger of being left behind by game-changing disruptive trends

Richard ShermanSenior FellowTata Consultancy Services

Take IT Performance Further

08:50 - 09:20

Developing an IT Strategy Capable of Defining your Operations

Committing fully to a digital transformation is the key to quick and lasting success. Hear how Werner are using IT to direct strategic decisions and create innovative success for both the business and their customers

Constant digitalization: Make digitalization the cornerstone of your IT Strategy to expedite your ability of introducing new initiatives from initial concepts to operational reality

Establish the route to success: Impose a strategic attitude on the integration of new innovations and disruptive technologies that can give your company a differentiating edge over the competition

Adapt and expand: Maintain an open approach to exploring new and effective IT advancements and welcome the key role that tech innovations and partnerships are playing in growing a global logistics company across North America.

Nathan JohnsonSVP & CIOWerner Enterprises

09:20 - 09:50

Managing your technology strategy: The key to logistics efficiency

As technology permeates every area of logistics, CIO and IT departments have become increasingly pivotal. Discover how Neovia Logistics have implemented a transformational IT strategy, to achieve lasting and repeatable success.

Understand what the future holds: Look beyond the hype, commit to a digital transformation and embrace the acceleration of technology

Purpose-Driven Automation: Generate immediate returns as well as long term value using analytics to turn your data into actionable process improvements across your operations

The Value of Human Capital: Understand the best IT innovations can spring from everywhere. Engage your employees, uncover their knowledge and create a culture of constant improvement.

Jack PawsatSVP IT Product SolutionsNeovia

09:50 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00

Digital Innovation: Transforming the Customer Experience

The ability to innovate creatively rapidly and effectively has become the primary differentiator among Transportation companies. These Innovations can help enhance the customer experience. However in this journey to enhance the customer experience, factors such as digital strategy, platform and vehicle technology are presenting major challenges on its own. During this session, we will discuss the challenges and what lies ahead in technology for IT leaders in transportation companies.

Ramesh SundaresanVP IT and Division CIORyder Systems

Amit NagarHead of LogisticsHCL

Always Be Innovating

11:00 - 11:45

INTERACTIVE PANEL - Innovation: Evolutionary or Revolutionary?

Whether your policy is evolutionary or revolutionary, logistics leaders must always be innovating. From ROI to customer satisfaction, explore ways to measure success, build a passionate workforce, and drive the industry forward.

Disrupt or evolve: Compare the benefits of consistent adaptation or a singular substantial investment to choose the best course of innovation for your company

Secure the right tools: Debate leading approaches, weigh in on the merits of innovation experts versus innovation centres, and understand which style could yield the best results

Make creativity go viral: From reward schemes to inter-company initiatives, learn how to instil an innovative mindset to chart the quickest route to success.

Moderator:Tim MotterHead of Transportation and Logistics AmericasSAP

Eric RempelCIORedwood Logistics

Nathan JohnsonSVP IT & CIOWerner Enterprises

Jack PawsatSVP IT Product SolutionsNeovia

11:45 - 12:15

Innovating in the Margins

In today's hyper competitive environment, both established players and startups are finding new ways to innovate and maximize revenue. Michael Hagler, President of Clevertech, will dive into a cutting edge project that changes the landscape of dimensioning with commodity innovation.

We will learn how organizations, regardless of size, can innovate above their weight and drastically change their product offerings, even when facing resource limitations.

Michael HaglerPresidentClevertech

12:15 - 12:45

CASE STUDY - Innovation and Disruptive Technology Trends

In the move from digitization to digital transformation, J.B. Hunt shares its approach to investing and implementing new innovations to revolutionize its supply chain process. This has resulted in better customer service, smarter decision making and increased business.

J.B. Hunt 360: Bring shippers and carriers together into a single e-commerce platform with a next generation supply chain solution

Efficiency through modernization: Use real-time data and artificial intelligence to match freight with capacity to create efficiency and cost saving.

Gary DowdyHead of Innovation and Disruptive TechnologyJ.B Hunt

12:45 - 13:55

Lunch

13:55 - 14:40

Interactive Panel - The logistics tech revolution: Where we're headed and how to get there

Automation is accelerating the industry into a new era, and adopting the right solutions will set your company apart from the competition. Become a part of the revolution, and lead your company on a hypergrowth trajectory by implementing APIs and real-time visibility.

Automating the full shipment lifecycle: Learn how automation technology is optimizing the shipment process to eliminate errors, increase visibility, and provide accurate data in real-time

As more companies begin to engage with digital freight sales, it is becoming increasingly apparent that some may miss the boat. Hear Freightos address the conceptual and IT-specific issues of digital sales, presenting real case studies and actual digital sales data.

Online Transactions: Discuss the significance of digital freight sales and the implications of failing to establish a capable online system for sales

IT success: The role of the CIO in the freight ecommerce marketing/sales funnel and where the hand off to operations needs to occur

In the Digital world, customer experience is central to business and supply chain strategy. With myriad set of services being offered in part or whole to different set of industry verticals across the globe, there is an opportunity for Logistics Service Providers to take customer experience beyond Customer Integration, visibility and portals.

This session would focus on best practices in customer experience and how Logistics service providers can potentially leap frog competition by re-imagining their customer interactions and design thinking

Sudheer PamighantamHead of Logistics & Digital SCMTech Mahindra

16:50 - 17:20

Keep Pace with the Tech Trends of Tomorrow

The acceleration of technology in the logistics industry is increasing at a phenomenal rate. Hear how SCI Group are keeping up with the speed of growth and choosing the right trends for their business.

Match growth with demand: Introduce solutions and technology in line with customer demand, improve business capabilities, and execute requirements as efficiently as possible

Welcome the future of e-commerce: Manage growing operational challenges caused by an increasingly digital supply chain, and implement more customer-facing features

Become Data Driven: Maintain a steady trajectory to become a data centric organization, automate processes and improve data integration with customers

Patrick RessaCIOSCI Logistics

17:20

Networking & Drinks

18:30

Container Bar party

Thanks to our friends at Nulogy, JDA and enVista, we are pleased to invite you to join us at the Container Bar on Rainey Street from 6:30pm on 7 November, 2017.

It’s a great location where you can relax after the first day of the conference in Austin’s famous, historic downtown area. Check out more details about the venue here - http://austincontainerbar.com/

Free drinks and amazing tacos provided

Free Transport to and from the conference Hotel until 9:30pm

Sponsors:

07:30 - 08:30

Registration Opens and Networking Coffee

08:30 - 08:45

Chairman Remarks

More information coming soon...

Richard ShermanSenior FellowTata Consulting Services

Secure Your Network

08:45 - 09:15

Automate trust with Blockchain: A study into its logistics applications

Blockchain technology is relatively new and rapidly growing. Get to grips with the essential information about blockchains and how they could dramatically disrupt the logistics industry.

Discover blockchain: Get key details about the technology, learn about its applications and understand its uses for your business

Pros and cons: Identify the key benefits and drawbacks of the technology for logistics – such as increased security and trust against the cost of industry wide adoption

Grasp the logistics potential: Study the processes this technology could replace, get to the bottom of the true potential, and understand the change it will bring to the logistics world.

Pete HarrisCo-founder and Research PrincipalChain Business Insights

09:15 - 09:45

The transportation Blockchain – Solutions you can implement today

The Blockchain market is set to grow from $210M to $2B by 2021. Although the transportation industry has typically lagged in adoption of new technology, some of the largest trucking organizations are already talking about implementing blockchain in the near future. Are you?

In this session, Tim Leonard, a 2017 Hortonworks Data Visionary Award Recipient and Chief Information Officer of TMW Systems, will uncover what blockchain is and its actual application in the transportation industry. He will walk through a live demonstration of blockchain solutions already built that can be implemented now to get ahead of the curve.

Tim LeonardEVP TechnologyTMW Systems

09:45 - 10:30

INTERACTIVE PANEL - Reducing the risk of hacking with the best security solutions

As technology gets smarter, so do the people who breach it. The challenge is balancing protection with productivity. Logistics IT leaders offer solutions.

Manage the human impact: Face the implications of increased automation and manage the displacement of jobs

Sudarsan ThattaiCIOLineage Logistics

11:40 - 12:10

The Rise of the 4PL

With many companies using multiple providers to reduce costs and risk, funnelling high volumes of logistics data into a single source of truth becomes needlessly complex. Focus operations and master technology to quickly uncover internal inefficiencies and offer the complete service.

Predict using key indicators: Harness the power of predictive analytics and dramatically improve operational capabilities to future-proof your business

Increase your profit: Unlock the performance potential of technologies such as API, and improve your ROI.

Moderator:Roman HlutkowskyTransportation Industry SpecialistHCL

Robert WareDirector Global Logistics ITGeneral Motors

Eric RempelCIORedwood Logistics

Emile ZafirovCIOLogistics Plus

12:55 - 13:25

How UPS is creating a global smart logistics network

Discover how UPS is using innovate technology to transform their supply chain operations and continuously develop their logistics infrastructure to facilitate business success.

The Cost of Efficiency: Aggressive investment in automated processes within the logistics network to drive improved performance

Decipher your data: Understand how, when examined and applied accurately, the correlations data provides can form the impetus for operational changes to a logistics organization

Generate future benefits: Extract critical value from data and innovations and apply the knowledge through the entire network to build future success.

Jeff JonesSenior Director IT StrategyUPS

13:25 - 13:30

Chairman closing remarks

13:30

Conference End

07:25 - 08:25

Registration Opens and Networking Coffee

08:25 - 08:30

eft Welcome

More information coming soon...

Paddy Le CountProject Directoreft

08:30 - 08:50

Introduction from the Conference Chairman

If there is one thing we’ve learned from 2016, it’s that change is the only constant. Join our Conference Chairman as he shares key ways to stay abreast of the biggest changes impacting and transforming our industry, including:

How to be proactive with tech today to gain increased advantages for the future

The importance of maintaining a securely protected Logistics IT network

The danger of being left behind by game-changing disruptive trends

Richard ShermanSenior FellowTata Consultancy Services

Take IT Performance Further

08:50 - 09:20

Developing an IT Strategy Capable of Defining your Operations

Committing fully to a digital transformation is the key to quick and lasting success. Hear how Werner are using IT to direct strategic decisions and create innovative success for both the business and their customers

Constant digitalization: Make digitalization the cornerstone of your IT Strategy to expedite your ability of introducing new initiatives from initial concepts to operational reality

Establish the route to success: Impose a strategic attitude on the integration of new innovations and disruptive technologies that can give your company a differentiating edge over the competition

Adapt and expand: Maintain an open approach to exploring new and effective IT advancements and welcome the key role that tech innovations and partnerships are playing in growing a global logistics company across North America.

Nathan JohnsonSVP & CIOWerner Enterprises

09:20 - 09:50

Managing your technology strategy: The key to logistics efficiency

As technology permeates every area of logistics, CIO and IT departments have become increasingly pivotal. Discover how Neovia Logistics have implemented a transformational IT strategy, to achieve lasting and repeatable success.

Understand what the future holds: Look beyond the hype, commit to a digital transformation and embrace the acceleration of technology

Purpose-Driven Automation: Generate immediate returns as well as long term value using analytics to turn your data into actionable process improvements across your operations

The Value of Human Capital: Understand the best IT innovations can spring from everywhere. Engage your employees, uncover their knowledge and create a culture of constant improvement.

Jack PawsatSVP IT Product SolutionsNeovia

09:50 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00

Digital Innovation: Transforming the Customer Experience

The ability to innovate creatively rapidly and effectively has become the primary differentiator among Transportation companies. These Innovations can help enhance the customer experience. However in this journey to enhance the customer experience, factors such as digital strategy, platform and vehicle technology are presenting major challenges on its own. During this session, we will discuss the challenges and what lies ahead in technology for IT leaders in transportation companies.

Ramesh SundaresanVP IT and Division CIORyder Systems

Amit NagarHead of LogisticsHCL

Always Be Innovating

11:00 - 11:45

INTERACTIVE PANEL - Innovation: Evolutionary or Revolutionary?

Whether your policy is evolutionary or revolutionary, logistics leaders must always be innovating. From ROI to customer satisfaction, explore ways to measure success, build a passionate workforce, and drive the industry forward.

Disrupt or evolve: Compare the benefits of consistent adaptation or a singular substantial investment to choose the best course of innovation for your company

Secure the right tools: Debate leading approaches, weigh in on the merits of innovation experts versus innovation centres, and understand which style could yield the best results

Make creativity go viral: From reward schemes to inter-company initiatives, learn how to instil an innovative mindset to chart the quickest route to success.

Moderator:Tim MotterHead of Transportation and Logistics AmericasSAP

Eric RempelCIORedwood Logistics

Nathan JohnsonSVP IT & CIOWerner Enterprises

Jack PawsatSVP IT Product SolutionsNeovia

11:45 - 12:15

Innovating in the Margins

In today's hyper competitive environment, both established players and startups are finding new ways to innovate and maximize revenue. Michael Hagler, President of Clevertech, will dive into a cutting edge project that changes the landscape of dimensioning with commodity innovation.

We will learn how organizations, regardless of size, can innovate above their weight and drastically change their product offerings, even when facing resource limitations.

Michael HaglerPresidentClevertech

12:15 - 12:45

CASE STUDY - Innovation and Disruptive Technology Trends

In the move from digitization to digital transformation, J.B. Hunt shares its approach to investing and implementing new innovations to revolutionize its supply chain process. This has resulted in better customer service, smarter decision making and increased business.

J.B. Hunt 360: Bring shippers and carriers together into a single e-commerce platform with a next generation supply chain solution

Efficiency through modernization: Use real-time data and artificial intelligence to match freight with capacity to create efficiency and cost saving.

Gary DowdyHead of Innovation and Disruptive TechnologyJ.B Hunt

12:45 - 13:55

Lunch

13:55 - 14:40

Interactive Panel - The logistics tech revolution: Where we're headed and how to get there

Automation is accelerating the industry into a new era, and adopting the right solutions will set your company apart from the competition. Become a part of the revolution, and lead your company on a hypergrowth trajectory by implementing APIs and real-time visibility.

Automating the full shipment lifecycle: Learn how automation technology is optimizing the shipment process to eliminate errors, increase visibility, and provide accurate data in real-time

As more companies begin to engage with digital freight sales, it is becoming increasingly apparent that some may miss the boat. Hear Freightos address the conceptual and IT-specific issues of digital sales, presenting real case studies and actual digital sales data.

Online Transactions: Discuss the significance of digital freight sales and the implications of failing to establish a capable online system for sales

IT success: The role of the CIO in the freight ecommerce marketing/sales funnel and where the hand off to operations needs to occur

In the Digital world, customer experience is central to business and supply chain strategy. With myriad set of services being offered in part or whole to different set of industry verticals across the globe, there is an opportunity for Logistics Service Providers to take customer experience beyond Customer Integration, visibility and portals.

This session would focus on best practices in customer experience and how Logistics service providers can potentially leap frog competition by re-imagining their customer interactions and design thinking

Sudheer PamighantamHead of Logistics & Digital SCMTech Mahindra

16:50 - 17:20

Keep Pace with the Tech Trends of Tomorrow

The acceleration of technology in the logistics industry is increasing at a phenomenal rate. Hear how SCI Group are keeping up with the speed of growth and choosing the right trends for their business.

Match growth with demand: Introduce solutions and technology in line with customer demand, improve business capabilities, and execute requirements as efficiently as possible

Welcome the future of e-commerce: Manage growing operational challenges caused by an increasingly digital supply chain, and implement more customer-facing features

Become Data Driven: Maintain a steady trajectory to become a data centric organization, automate processes and improve data integration with customers

Patrick RessaCIOSCI Logistics

17:20

Networking & Drinks

18:30

Container Bar party

Thanks to our friends at Nulogy, JDA and enVista, we are pleased to invite you to join us at the Container Bar on Rainey Street from 6:30pm on 7 November, 2017.

It’s a great location where you can relax after the first day of the conference in Austin’s famous, historic downtown area. Check out more details about the venue here - http://austincontainerbar.com/

Automate trust with Blockchain: A study into its logistics applications

Blockchain technology is relatively new and rapidly growing. Get to grips with the essential information about blockchains and how they could dramatically disrupt the logistics industry.

Discover blockchain: Get key details about the technology, learn about its applications and understand its uses for your business

Pros and cons: Identify the key benefits and drawbacks of the technology for logistics – such as increased security and trust against the cost of industry wide adoption

Grasp the logistics potential: Study the processes this technology could replace, get to the bottom of the true potential, and understand the change it will bring to the logistics world.

Pete HarrisCo-founder and Research PrincipalChain Business Insights

09:15 - 09:45

The transportation Blockchain – Solutions you can implement today

The Blockchain market is set to grow from $210M to $2B by 2021. Although the transportation industry has typically lagged in adoption of new technology, some of the largest trucking organizations are already talking about implementing blockchain in the near future. Are you?

In this session, Tim Leonard, a 2017 Hortonworks Data Visionary Award Recipient and Chief Information Officer of TMW Systems, will uncover what blockchain is and its actual application in the transportation industry. He will walk through a live demonstration of blockchain solutions already built that can be implemented now to get ahead of the curve.

Tim LeonardEVP TechnologyTMW Systems

09:45 - 10:30

INTERACTIVE PANEL - Reducing the risk of hacking with the best security solutions

As technology gets smarter, so do the people who breach it. The challenge is balancing protection with productivity. Logistics IT leaders offer solutions.

Manage the human impact: Face the implications of increased automation and manage the displacement of jobs

Sudarsan ThattaiCIOLineage Logistics

11:40 - 12:10

The Rise of the 4PL

With many companies using multiple providers to reduce costs and risk, funnelling high volumes of logistics data into a single source of truth becomes needlessly complex. Focus operations and master technology to quickly uncover internal inefficiencies and offer the complete service.